Rosetta

We just got back from having a wonderful meal at Rosetta. Located in Roma at 166 Colima at Orizaba. We live in Merida and as such are lacking in things like good bread.At Rosetta, I would go back just for the fresh bread. We started with salads. Charlotte had a terrific smoked beet, greens, goat cheese and mint salad. A nice added touch was a beet sorbeta accompaniment. I chose a fennel,citrus and granada salad. Mine was very good but I thought the dressing was a little over powering. Charlotte's was by far the most interesting and adult. We both had fresh pastas for the main course. Carrot stuffed ravioli with fennel flowers with a light yogurt sauce and paperadelle with chicken liver and sage. Both were excellent. For dessert we had lavender madeleine and lemon ice cream and a strawberry,rhubarb crumble with ginger ice cream. Again both were excellent choices. With 2 bottles of mineral waters and 2 expressos the bill was a reasonable $875.00 for the quality of food and service. We will only be the Mexico City for 10 days but intend on going back to Rosetta 1 or 2 more times. It was that good.

Re: [fishfrier] Rosetta

It will interest you to know that the chef/owner at Rosetta, Elena Reygada, was just named best woman chef in Latin America.

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